Transient Morality ©️

There was a time when good and evil were mountains—unchanging, immovable, their peaks scraping against the heavens, their valleys drowning in shadow. Men would look upon them and see their lives reflected in those slopes. Some climbed, others fell, but all believed the mountains were real. They named them. They prayed to them. They built their laws and their wars upon them.

But then, the mountains disappeared.

Or maybe they were never there at all.

Morality is a mirage, a flickering distortion in the human mind, shaped by heat, distance, and time. A man kills another man, and in one world he is a murderer. In another, he is a hero. The same trigger pulled, the same blood spilled, and yet the meaning shifts depending on who is watching, who is writing the story, who is left to remember. If good and evil were real, they would not bend so easily.

The weak need good and evil to be real. They need a compass, a script, a way to know when to raise their voices and when to lower their heads. The strong understand that morality is not a force but a field, quantum in nature, infinite possibilities collapsing into meaning only when observed. A thing is neither just nor wicked until named, and those who name things shape the world.

A dead baby is not evil. A dead baby is a fact. It is flesh that was warm and is now cold, a process in motion, an entropy resolved. The horror, the tragedy, the wailing in the night—all of it is a projection, a collapsing of the wave function into a reality that serves the story we are told to believe. But the universe does not mourn. It does not take sides. It does not pause for a moment of silence. It simply continues.

The world is made of men who see morality as law and men who see it as leverage. The first are ruled. The second rule. The first build their identities around what is right and wrong. The second build their power on the knowledge that right and wrong are inventions, no more solid than mist, no more permanent than the morning fog. The strong do not break the rules; they break the illusion that the rules ever existed in the first place.

There will come a moment, perhaps soon, when the world shifts again. The mountains will crumble. The sky will open. And in that moment, when all the lines have been erased, when the script has been burned, when the compass is spinning wildly in an empty hand—only then will you see who understood all along.

There is no good.

There is no evil.

There is only who decides.

The Rogue Priest II ©️

Exploring the possibility that certain priests who committed abuses were driven by an obsession with the Christ child is a deeply complex and unsettling topic. This perspective would not seek to justify or excuse any such behavior but rather to understand the twisted ways in which sacred ideals can be corrupted. The Christ child, representing purity, innocence, and divine vulnerability, has long held a central place in Christian symbolism. For some, this figure embodies the ultimate expression of God’s approachability, humility, and love. However, in the hands of those with dark or fractured souls, this image could potentially become an object of twisted obsession—a distorted veneration that is not love but a profane inversion of it.

Such an obsession could stem from a disordered mind that interprets the innocence and purity of the Christ child as something to be owned or controlled, a way to draw near to divinity in a manner that defies ethical and moral boundaries. In these cases, what may start as a fixation on purity can become an unhealthy obsession with control or dominance, seeking power over vulnerability rather than embracing it with the reverence it deserves. This distortion represents a radical departure from Christ’s teachings, where his love for children and the vulnerable is shown in kindness, compassion, and unwavering protection.

This tragedy points to the dangerous power of religious symbols when they are approached without the necessary reverence and humility. For individuals twisted by obsession, the Christ child may not be seen as a call to serve and protect innocence but, rather, as a vessel for misplaced urges, hidden desires, or unresolved personal darkness. This perverse fixation is a grave betrayal, not only of the individuals harmed but of the very essence of the Christ figure they claimed to revere. In this light, the path forward lies in confronting these distortions with honesty, ensuring that the image of the Christ child remains a call to purity, humility, and care rather than a dangerous idol of obsession.